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THIRD DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1867.
The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev.
J. P. Hammond, of the P. E. Church.
Hon. Anthony Kennedy, delegate from Baltimore coun-
ty, and Henry D. Farnandis, delegate from Harford coun-
ty, appeared in their seats today, and came forward and
took the oath of office.
The President announced the following as the com-
mittee of seven to prepare rules for the government of
the Convention: Messrs. E. G. Kilbourne, Isaac D. Jones,
John B. Burke, John F. Dent, Thomas J. Keating, Thomas
Perry and James R. Howison.
Mr. Maulsby offered the following orders, which were
adopted:
Ordered, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be re-
quested to report to this Convention, as soon as prac-
ticable, the aggregate amounts paid to special judges in
each year from 1852 to 1866, inclusive.
Ordered, That the comptroller be requested to furnish,
&c., the aggregate amount of counsel fees paid from the
treasury for business in which the State was interested,
including prosecutions in criminal cases in each year from
1852 to 1866, inclusive.
Ordered, That the clerks of the county commissioners
and the comptroller of the city of Baltimore be requested
to furnish, for the use of this Convention, the aggregate
amount of moneys paid to judges of the Orphans' Courts
for the year 1866.
The unfinished business, being the order presented by
Mr. Barry yesterday, for the appointment of committees
to prepare work for the convention, was then taken up,
the question being on the substitute offered by Mr. Dob-
bin, to proceed, as in committee of the whole, to consider
the bill of rights and constitution of 1851.
Mr. Geo. Wm. Brown was satisfied that all the mem-
bers of the Convention were actuated by a common pur-
pose to proceed in the best mode and speediest manner to
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